4.52am Issue: 011 4th December 2016

THE WAVE PICTURES
Now I Want To Hoover My Brain Clean
It doesn’t take an Einstein-a-go-go to
realise that we are deeply in love with
The Wave Pictures, their album is one of
our Albums of the year, and if we don’t
get to have a proper chat with the chaps
sometime next year and get to the
bottom of just why they are so awesome
and cool, well I may hold my breath until
they agree.
In Now I Want To Hoover… they have
again reminded us just how brilliant they
are and thrown in a video for good
measure. It really is a time of miracles.
Songwriter & Guitarist Dave Tattersall
describes it thus,
“We Wave Pictures like to learn on the
job, and we release our experiments too.
We’re not going to chicken out now,
though ever since we started our
recklessness, our sheer joie-de-vivre, has
always baffled some people. Some
people even think the guitar solos are
written down in advance. What would be
the point of that? This is largely
improvised music. It’s on the move.
That’s what makes it live. You see,
these days the kids like their music to
be made by machines, even when it
pretends otherwise. The kids don’t
seem to fear the machines (as I do,
having been so profoundly affected at
a young age by the first two Terminator
movies) and so they happily switch on
their computers and listen to robots
singing. Well, one day those robots will
rise up and kill us all. Listen instead,
kids, to The Wave Pictures, the band
that will someday soundtrack the
resistance. We are the real thing, you
know. The only reason the press
haven’t noticed is that they are
besotted with the machine music of
robots, too. Ah, but no robot could
swing the way Franic Rozycki swings
his tugboat bass on this mighty bluesrock
anthem. The resistance starts
here.”
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